Re: Bidirectional text and URLs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: chad <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:01:43 -0800
> 
> > Yes, but this would only be a sign of trouble if the rest of buffer
> > text is strictly left to right.  And even then, there are legitimate
> > URLs that have RTL characters, e.g. in Google queries.
> 
> This is a great point. Does this happen often enough that it would
> be troublesome to add a warning or prompt about it?

What happens often enough? Google queries with RTL text?  For me, all
the time.  Here's a random example:

  
https://www.google.co.il/search?q=זאפ+השוואת+מחירים&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=g498VJeSJ8Sg8wfD5IDwBQ

Note that copy-pasting this from the Firefox's address bar actually
pastes this instead:

  
https://www.google.co.il/search?q=%D7%96%D7%90%D7%A4+%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%AA+%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=g498VJeSJ8Sg8wfD5IDwBQ

which might be something we could consider (I suggested that earlier
as one of the possible ways to fight the malicious directional
overrides).